Abraham Lincoln Quotes

"Tell us any lie you want to, In any kind of mixture, But we pray you, God we pray you, Don't show us his picture."

"It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him."

"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."

"In all that people can individually do as well for themselves, government ought not to interfere."

"Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history."

"Towering genius disdains a beaten path."

"Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out. It will wear well and will be remembered long after the prism of politeness or the complexion of courtesy has faded away."

"I am glad to know that there is a system of labor where the laborer can strike if he wants to! I would like to God that such a system prevailed all over the world"

"No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar."

"The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."

"Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence."

"''A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal.'' So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason."

"We shall nobody save or meanly lose the last best hope"

"I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace."

"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew."

"In times like these men should utter nothing for which they would not be willingly responsible through time and in eternity."

"Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived."

"I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise."

"We must ask where we are and whither we are tending."

"Truth is generally the best vindication against slander."